Misinformation regarding N95 masks
Plenty of reviews whose headline says N95 do not work, but whose studies says they do
Over the past week, multiple people shared with me three studies (1, 2, 3) that, according to them, proved that face masks do not work.
Imagine my surprise when I read them and, in fact, they indicated that N95 masks do work! Their headline says that masks do not work, but the papers they cite say the opposite.
I’ve explained my findings in the threads below.
Summary: of the 150 papers cited, only 12 evaluate N95 effectiveness.
Of these, 7 support that N95 work and 5 cannot conclude that they do not work.
This is the current status of studies on N95 effectiveness. The idea that studies conclude they do not work is a lie.
Many people are sharing this study as evidence that masks do not work.
But have they read it?
Clearly not, otherwise they'd have seen it actually says the opposite.
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Luca Scorrano @luca_scorrano2
I see a pattern of misinformation based on the following strategy: link to a huge number of papers, hoping that no one would read them, then write a headline that says the opposite of what the papers conclude.
Do your own research. Read the sources. Do not trust authorities just on the basis of their academic title. Do not make yourself vulnerable to misinformation.
We are debating this issue on different levels. You act as if all studies are neutral and "scientific" but the business of science is skewed by who funds any particular study. Medicine and science took different paths years ago. The point is that "scientists" can't agree whether masks are effective or not, depending partly on where their funding comes from. The pseudopandemic has exposed a great deal of the corruption of science. Science never has a single conclusion, in any case. It is a healthy competition between hypotheses.You could line up two panels of scientists who could come to opposing conclusions but where is their bread buttered? There is no absolute certainty, for instance, that viruses exist. There is still a germ theory vs terrain theory debate. "Science" is continually changing its mind. And so it should. Whatever the scientific debate says about masks, politicians did an U turn because they saw that, in conjunction with lockdowns, they could start the sort of political control that can lead to a subservient population controlled by digital means. You and I are debating about whether deckchairs work when the Titanic has already hit the iceberg.
https://brownstone.org/articles/more-than-150-comparative-studies-and-articles-on-mask-ineffectiveness-and-harms/